YEREVAN. – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received the OSCE-accredited ambassadors, who are in the capital city Yerevan on a regional visit. 

During the meeting, the participants reflected on regional security issues and the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, the President’s Press Office informs.  

Also, and upon the request of the guests, President Sargsyan presented the Armenian authorities’ steps taken, in the most recent years, toward safeguarding the country’s security, democracy, and institutional reforms as well as their future plans.     

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, permanent representatives from nineteen OSCE-member states will conduct a situation monitoring in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

They already are in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.

The representatives will visit Azerbaijan on September 10-11.

Along the lines of their tours, the monitors will meet with government, political party, and civil society representatives. And the objective of their visits is to get familiar with the current situation and to exchange views on the ongoing processes in the region.   

To note, the OSCE representatives’ earlier-expected visit has coincided with the growing interest in the region, specifically in terms of the developments following Ramil Safarov’s extradition to Azerbaijan, where he was granted pardon.  

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence—and with no expression of either regret or remorse—for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.

As expected, Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately granted him a pardon.

And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.